Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-13


sue as q mass for the rights of others.
He'll is said to be but self shness on fire.
The bankers of this country are not mo-
nopolists; they are opposed to monopoly
in every form, because monopolies are
dangerous to steady going andluniver-
sal property. We can only endure them,
and do only endure them, when they
bring the common necessities of life to
the door of every man at the lowest pos
sible cost. do not believe that the
poorer classes of any country receive bet
ter wages, and yet have supplied to them
st the smallest cost bread-stuffs, cloth
ing, Oil, schooling, and all the innumera-
BILE privileges for health and contentment
as here in our country. What boots it
then, If the capitalist equanders his
money, if the wOrkingman and the farmer
are getting his supplies ct price he can
sff1rd to psy?
Twenty-Five yesrs ago laborers re-
ceived 81 day wages; now they are re-
ceiving an average of so day, and these
two dollars will buy more of the necessi-
ties of life than S. would twenty-five
years ago. A banker gets lower rate
of interest for his money than he did
twenty-five years age, and yet his living
is more expensive and his wants are
increasing; the demands upon him for
charities increase in untold amount and
his happiness is rot augmented in rela-
tive proportion, Unquestionsbly, the
last twenty-five years have given the race
for happiness, contentment and profit IN
this country to the Ishoring class. Truly
we can say with Dr. Hodge: "Every man
is his own ancestor and every man Is his
own heir. He dev!ses his own future and
he inherits his own past" We may be
sure that the only possible good for socie-
ty must come cut of evolution, not
revolution. Let me repeat the words of
q distinguished writer, addressed to rich
and poor alike: "The Almighty will go
on working among us in His own won
derful way, purifying our philosophy OF
its fOolishness, our lives of their lawless-
ness, making the lines of His law CLEAN
out before our eyes and coneclences like
linked lightning ip black night, teach
ing US what law is, that it was cut in the
rock By Gods finger. So in the midst of
our respIendent liberty may we tread only
in Gods paths and fad in supreme fidel-
itY TO Him the grand spring of all our
loyalty to country, allegiance to govern
ment and submission TO power.
Here to-day let honest labor and honest
capital be betrothed to each other in q
mystical tie as ore flesh. Let no man
enter in with lis theories to mar this
contract What will be your answer, ye
laboriDg men? II yes, then what God
has joined together let no man put
asun0er.
This was followed by the reading of
reports Cf officers. The secretary's re-
port showed q gratifying increase of
membership, especially in the south and
west. Last year the total membership
was 1902, while this year it is 1852 Dur
ing the year $1,000 had been spent in
prosecuting number of most dangerous
orgers and criminals in the country.
A banker, whether he lends money on
his own account or as the officer of a cor
por2tion, is interested in good general
government to an intense degree; 1t ne
cessarily follows that he be also inter-
ested in the specific things which lead to
it; good money is not the only matter in
which he is Interested. Daniel
Webster said: "A strong con-
viction that something must be
done is the parent of many bad
measures" He is interested in how to
LudhO u R1NollOG 0GN o WOIhkuSu6h SAC
most dependent of friends. He is inter-
estsd IN good and perfect postal sys-
TEN, good telegraph system, good
warehouse law, fixed tariff law, uni
form grace law, more uniform holiday
law, more national and less state, reliable
insurance on property held as
security. We have possibly a
good Interstate commerce law;
a vigorous anti corner breadstuff5 law; q
better unders anding of what the great
trusts which are beng inaugurated mean; ;
a better system of bank drafts, such as
has recently been inaugurated by our
Chicago bank friends; strict law as to
mortgages on railroads and other prop
erty, and a definition of what a first
mortgage is more clearly de-
fined; an absolute restriction
of privileges of foreign capitalists,
prac -ically cOnfscatipg great bodies OF our
pubic domain, which should be strictly
guarded for our American youth; re-
slriction and thorough revision of our
immigration laws, by which the offscour-
iDgs of he world will not be permitted to
land without tariff OF say $500 on each
male immigrants head, as earnest
money that he worked at home and can
work here, and take an oath OF
allegiance of the greatest severity, and,
if violated, severesr punishment; how to
keep elastic Treasury vaults, that the sur
plus msy flow again into the channels of
commerce in the proportion that COM
merce through an imperfect tariff, in great
measure, puts in the Treasury; we need 8
uniform bankrupt law, where preferred
creditors will not take all thstls left OF an
insolveHt firm; We need public defini-
ton Of what the liberty Of the press
should be; more thorough education of
profit sharing by employers with the
employed; equal taxation of all money
lenders, whether they be banks, insurance
companies, trust companies, or private
foreign bankers. Indeed, we need so
much to protect and garner the prosperity
which has been lavished upon the country
that our wants are bewildering, and
know no class Of intelligent men TO seek
out and suggest ways and means for the
betterment of the commonwealth than
such an association as ours. Can we not
gather our forces and create public opin-
ion, ourselves possessed of q teachable
spirit, thus discover true wisdom in our
widening experience? I dare not venture
more than to suggest that at this meeting,
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